{"id":25483,"date":"2026-09-25T21:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=25483"},"modified":"2026-09-25T21:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:12:40","slug":"merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley Condemns More Pocket Rescissions by Trump Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8211; Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the below statement after President Donald Trump and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russ Vought issued more illegal pocket rescissions, this time clawing back nearly $1 billion in congressionally appropriated funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cOnce again, President Trump and Russ Vought have violated the law by sending Congress more illegal pocket rescissions in the dark of night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cWe have seen this show before. Trump and Vought have a habit of ignoring Congress. That is why I have put forth several amendments that would have prevented the Trump Administration from undermining bipartisan agreements.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is time for my Republican colleagues to finally stand up to the Administration and reaffirm that what Congress passes\u2014and the President signs\u2014is the law of the land, and the funds cannot be clawed back without Congress\u2019 approval. Enough of these Executive Branch power grabs. The law is not a suggestion, and the President is not a king,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0dijo el miembro de mayor rango, Jeff Merkley.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8211; Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the below statement after President Donald Trump and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russ Vought issued more illegal pocket rescissions, this time clawing back nearly $1 billion in congressionally appropriated funding. \u201cOnce again, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":24864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[105,139],"class_list":["post-25483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-appropriations","tag-budget"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merkley Condemns More Pocket Rescissions by Trump Administration - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley Condemns More Pocket Rescissions by Trump Administration - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8211; Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the below statement after President Donald Trump and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russ Vought issued more illegal pocket rescissions, this time clawing back nearly $1 billion in congressionally appropriated funding. \u201cOnce again, [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-09-26T01:12:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Justin Krakoff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Justin Krakoff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Justin Krakoff\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/c3d47246c54d8abdcee52f34d61da4fb\"},\"headline\":\"Merkley Condemns More Pocket Rescissions by Trump Administration\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-26T01:12:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/\"},\"wordCount\":185,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_1.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Appropriations\",\"Budget\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Press Releases\"],\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/\",\"name\":\"Merkley Condemns More Pocket Rescissions by Trump Administration - Merkley\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_1.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-26T01:12:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/c3d47246c54d8abdcee52f34d61da4fb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_1.png\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":630,\"caption\":\"Senator Merkley at a Senate hearing.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Merkley Condemns More Pocket Rescissions by Trump Administration\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/\",\"name\":\"Merkley\",\"description\":\"Merkley\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/c3d47246c54d8abdcee52f34d61da4fb\",\"name\":\"Justin Krakoff\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1ba3576c3bf3cb581e2e6031e8ab005ce4a057dc3aec2b380f46fe363a244496?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1ba3576c3bf3cb581e2e6031e8ab005ce4a057dc3aec2b380f46fe363a244496?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1ba3576c3bf3cb581e2e6031e8ab005ce4a057dc3aec2b380f46fe363a244496?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Justin Krakoff\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/author\/justin-krakoff\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Merkley Condemns More Pocket Rescissions by Trump Administration - Merkley","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/","og_locale":"es_MX","og_type":"article","og_title":"Merkley Condemns More Pocket Rescissions by Trump Administration - Merkley","og_description":"WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8211; Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the below statement after President Donald Trump and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russ Vought issued more illegal pocket rescissions, this time clawing back nearly $1 billion in congressionally appropriated funding. \u201cOnce again, [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/","og_site_name":"Merkley","article_published_time":"2026-09-26T01:12:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":630,"url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_1.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Justin Krakoff","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Justin Krakoff","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/"},"author":{"name":"Justin Krakoff","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/c3d47246c54d8abdcee52f34d61da4fb"},"headline":"Merkley Condemns More Pocket Rescissions by Trump Administration","datePublished":"2026-09-26T01:12:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/"},"wordCount":185,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_1.png","keywords":["Appropriations","Budget"],"articleSection":["Press Releases"],"inLanguage":"es-MX"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/","url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/","name":"Merkley Condemns More Pocket Rescissions by Trump Administration - Merkley","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_1.png","datePublished":"2026-09-26T01:12:40+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/c3d47246c54d8abdcee52f34d61da4fb"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"es-MX","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"es-MX","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_1.png","width":1200,"height":630,"caption":"Senator Merkley at a Senate hearing."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-condemns-more-pocket-rescissions-by-trump-administration\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Merkley Condemns More Pocket Rescissions by Trump Administration"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/","name":"merkley","description":"merkley","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"es-MX"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/c3d47246c54d8abdcee52f34d61da4fb","name":"Justin Krakoff","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"es-MX","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1ba3576c3bf3cb581e2e6031e8ab005ce4a057dc3aec2b380f46fe363a244496?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1ba3576c3bf3cb581e2e6031e8ab005ce4a057dc3aec2b380f46fe363a244496?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1ba3576c3bf3cb581e2e6031e8ab005ce4a057dc3aec2b380f46fe363a244496?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Justin Krakoff"},"url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/author\/justin-krakoff\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25484,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25483\/revisions\/25484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}